birdayz/kaf

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2438 stars · 163 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Kaf is a modern command-line tool for Apache Kafka written in Go, inspired by kubectl and docker. It lets users manage clusters, topics, consumer groups, and produce/consume messages directly from the terminal.

Use cases

• inspect kafka topics and consumer groups from the terminal
• produce and consume kafka messages from the command line
• reset consumer group offsets for a kafka topic
• pipe messages between kafka topics
• manage multiple kafka cluster configurations
• describe kafka topic partitions and replicas

When to choose

• you want a kubectl-like CLI for day-to-day Kafka operations
• you need quick topic/group inspection and message debugging without a GUI
• you script Kafka interactions in shell pipelines

When to avoid

• you need a graphical Kafka management UI
• you require full Kafka admin operations like cluster provisioning or ACL-heavy management
• you need a Kafka client library for embedding in an application

Facets

cli-tool · maturity active

cli message-queue developer-tools developer-tools microservices cli windows go apache-kafka kafka-cli message-streaming event-streaming kubectl-inspired messaging command-line linux macos

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